Thanks to the Flying Piston, Strider Bikes, Lincoln Electric, Russ Brown Attorneys, Kirsh Helmets and a slew of other sponsors, Motorcycle Missions was able to take home $5000 from the annual Flying Pistons Builders Breakfast. Thank you to all the volunteers, donors and sponsors that made it happen.

On Memorial Day weekend, the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association Chapter 23-19, the “Highlanders”, with the support of the Leander and Burnet, TX VFWs, Leander Police Department, Blue Star Mothers and a whole lot of friends, held a charity ride through the Texas Hill Country to support Motorcycle Missions and remember the fallen. $2400 was raised to support the Motorcycle Missions Programs.

It's our favorite time of the year, the Handbuilt Show hosted by Revival Cycles, and the Moto GP in Austin, Texas. This year, Motorcycle Missions revealed our Lincoln Electric side car rig and showed off the championship winning board track shovelhead at Handbuilt. We saw the debut of the mini documentary "Healing with Two Wheels" and attended the builders party on the roof top of South Congress Hotel. The builders took in the thrilling sights and sounds of The American Motodrome Wall of Death, and loved talking to all the admirers fascinated by their handiwork. To put the icing on the cake, we attended Moto GP courtesy of the Circuit of the Americas. Thank you Lincoln Electric, Motul Oil, Circuit of the Americas, and Handbuilt Show for making this such a great experience for all these deserving veterans and first responders in our program. We can't wait till next year.

On the Wednesday before MotoGP weekend, we revealed our Lincoln Electric sponsored side car rig to the public, and just in time for its time in the spotlight at Austins most prestigious motorcycle venue, The Handbuilt Motorcycle Show.

Huge thanks to Lincoln Electric for sponsoring this build and for supporting our guys with welders and gear, and special thanks to the following companies for their contribution to the build:

Last Friday at Strokers Dallas, four Motorcycle Missions vets from the DFW area revealed the Harley Softail trike they customized and outfitted for a true American patriot, SSgt Mark “Tinman” Graunke. Huge thanks to 22 Kill for making this possible for Tinman and for our builders, and thank you Rick Fairless for hosting the reveal.

There are no words to describe being able to take the J&P Cycles Ultimate Biker Build Off Championship win home to 8 American Patriots who served their country in order to give us moments like these. The level of talent in this competition was nothing less than humbling, and so to have our shovelhead board tracker “Porterfield” take the win was an honor.

There are so many people to thank, but first we want to congratulate the veteran builders who each week were cutting and bending metal, welding, sanding, metal finishing, tearing down and assembling this project!

CONGRATULATIONS to veteran build team #2 for their HUGE win at the International Motorcycle Show Dallas this weekend. Their board tracker, named Porterfield, took Peoples Choice out of 60 contestants, and took 1st place in the shows highest class, Freestyle. Now it’s off to Chicago for the finals next weekend. Thanks to all that helped get this project done!

To say the newest group of Veteran and First Responder builders were floored by the motorcycle mecca inside the walls of @revivalcycles is an understatement. Thank you Stefan for the tour and for giving our guys the inspiration for their own build, revealing April 20 @handbuiltshow